chicago: charter schools collect almost $400,000. in discipline fees

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http://www.nationofchange.org/chicago-charter-schools-collect-almost-400000-discipline-fees-1330274203

Would you pay $5 as a penalty for your kid ne­glect­ing to have shoelaces tied at school?

Chicago is buzzing over a con­tro­ver­sial prac­tice aimed at forc­ing in­ner-city school kids to fol­low rules. The Noble Net­work of Char­ter Schools, which has re­ceived high praise from Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is charg­ing its mostly low-in­come stu­dents five bucks for vi­o­lat­ing cer­tain rules, which re­port­edly in­clude bring­ing “flam­ing hot” potato chips to school, chew­ing gum and falling asleep in class.

A group of par­ents whose kids at­tend Noble’s 10 Chicago char­ter high schools rose up this month to pub­licly ob­ject to the prac­tice, which they are de­nounc­ing as both overkill and a cyn­i­cal way for the com­pany to col­lect extra money, ac­cord­ing to re­ports in the Chicago Tri­bune and other media out­lets.

Some par­ents also al­lege the prac­tice is used to push out kids the schools would rather not have. The Tri­bune has a chart show­ing the char­ter’s grad­u­a­tion rates but also its high rate of non-re­turn­ing stu­dents.


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[RKP5637]

1. What absolute BULL SHIT!

[Ian David]

2. I could see if the fines were paid into a student activity account. n/t

[saras]

3. When, and ONLY when, we have mandated equal incomes would this be fair

[LiberalFighter]

4. Does any school have a legal right to assess fines?

They can discipline them with detention but seriously doubt monetary fines is legal.

[Heywood J]

5. Rahm still praises these schools.

It's further down in the article. I'm glad we got rid of that prick.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. "poor tax" money collecting scheme that takes money from the poor. wouldn't be done to rich

[fascisthunter]

7. nice way of making money there, Rahm.

you scumbag